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Taja Kramberger was born in 1970 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). She is a poet and translator, and holds a PhD in history and historical anthropology. She is also engaged in public sphere for the rights of people. She lives in Koper and works in fields of literature and social sciences. Between 1997 and 2006 she was the receiver of different scientific fellowships: of the Embassy of the Republic of France in Slovenia, of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales – Centre des recherches historiques (EHESS–CRH), and of the Maison des sciences de l’homme (MSH) in Paris. In academic year 2002–2003 she was a junior fellow at the Collegium Budapest–Institute for Advanced Study. She has collaborated on different research projects and participated in international scientific meetings, in fact she was a co-organizer of some of them (e.g. in 2002: »Territorial and imaginary borders on Balkans from antiquity till today « in co-organization of the ISH, Ljubljana, and the EHESS, Paris; in 2008: »History of Oblivion« in co-organization of the FHŠ / ZRS – University of Primorska, Koper, and AUF, Montréal).

Between 2004 and 2010 she was employed at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, where she helped setting up the whole program of Historical Anthropology (she is the co-author of 12 courses), and between 2007 and 2009 she led (voluntarily and unpaid) ‒ as a president of Collegium artium ‒ together with students and some of the academic colleagues more than 100 cultural events at the faculty. With her students she studied European and local dimensions of the Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906) in the frames of seminar work, and as a final act in 2008 prepared with them an extensive exhibitions on it with accompanied audio and video recordings. The exhibition was for the first time shown in Koper (2008), then invited to Trieste (2009), Maribor (2010) and Murska Sobota (2011).

Though she had very high or highest marks for her pedagogical work during all her faculty years and was generously investing much of her time to the benefits of the academic and local community (or maybe just because of that) she has become a target of intrigues of her university colleagues (and some Slovenian writers), when a young faculty has started sinking almost without resistance into the neoliberal paradigm, and consecutively intellectual work has become subordinated to the capital, index-ratings and management. She has lost her job in the process of an expansive academic purge in 2010, which was orchestrated by the leaders of the University of Primorska under the mandate of Rado Bohinc (Chancellor) and by the leaders of the Faculty of Humanities under conduction of Vesna Mikolič (Dean). (Vast documentation on these events, that is on dismissals and dealing with people, as well as a public polemic on the subject is available here: http://resimouniverzo.blogspot.com/ .) After the juridical decision the University of Primorska was obliged to pay her the damages.

She has, as an editor, translator, author and co-author, till now published around 60 publications, among them 38 numbers of the multilingual journal of anthropology (Editor-in-Chief), 3 monographs in history and social sciences, 4 collections of scientific and literary texts, 5 books of literary translations, 9 books of her poetry and 2 books for children (see Literary Data / Données littéraires and Scientific Data / Données scientifiques). Translations of her poetry were published in many anthologies, journals and books. She has participated in numerous international literary meetings and round tables around the world. She has been repeatedly nominated for literary awards and has received some of the awards and fellowships in Slovenia and outside it (e. g. in 2000 fellowship of the KulturKontakt and the Edition Thanhäuser for a bilingual book Gegenströmung/Protitok; in 2005 state fellowship for the Topmost artistic achievements, and in 2007 Veronika Award for the best poetry book of year 2006).

In 2011 she has founded together with two other poets from Slovenia, Barbara Korun and Tatjana Jamnik, the International Literary Award KONS®, which is given for the lifelong activities, vital and with integrity, of individuals in literary field, for their investments in common good of all people, that is for their many-sided engagements for the improvement of social circumstances and general conditions for work and creativity in their respective environments.

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